Yes, and I work for an international company and work with people from other countries all the time. In the office next door to me is a Russian national born in Kazakhstan. A week ago I was part of a seminar with coworkers from Russia (3), Canada (4), Scotland, (1), Norway (1), Germany (1), Malaysia (2), Australia (2), Indonesia (2), Nigeria (2), Libya (1) - two African teams didn't have representatives.
On the question of Obama versus McCain: people literally ask me all the time, "What is wrong with you people?"
When you say this in America people respond, "I don't care what others think."
They have a point. Foreigners excessive interest in our politics is inappropriate and its arrogant for them to try to intervene. I don't tell any of the non-US folks I deal with daily who they should vote for in their countries. Furthermore, many foreigners know only what they read in their press and see in the movies. They are hardly well-informed, nor do they necessarily have our best interests at heart.
New Yorkers besides that traitor Giuliani know what this country needs and it's not more xenophobia.
And as much as we like to make fun of the French, if Middle America were stand up citizens, they would say, you know what, they were right about Iraq.
I thought calling people traitors and bad citizens over political differences was sypposed to be a bad thing. Is that only for conservatives? |
